Carl Miller was awakened to his phone buzzing at 3 o’clock in the morning on Wednesday. It was a text message from a friend notifying him of a horrific car accident in Texas that killed six University of Southwest golfers, the coach and left two others injured.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” he said.
Miller’s mind immediately shifted to Hobbs, New Mexico, and for good reason. Now the assistant pro at The King & Bear golf course in St. Augustine, Florida, he coached the men’s and women’s team at USW — a private Christian school that competes at the NAIA level — from 2017 to 2019, calling it “a dream job to coach at the college level.”